According to IRNA, the selection competitions of the Iranian men’s national karate team to participate in the Asian Championships in Uzbekistan and the games of Islamic countries in Turkey are being followed this evening at the Shahid Kabganian Hall in Tehran.
Mohsen Ashouri, acting vice president, Vahid Momeni, secretary of the federation, Shahram Heravi, national team coach, and Hassan Rouhani, Saeed Farokhi, Mehdi Ahmadi and Hamed Zigsari, national team coaches, are supervising the tournament.
Seyed Hassan Tabatabai, President of the Karate Federation, could not observe the selection competitions due to his presence in the Electoral Assembly of the Karate Board of Semnan Province.
First, team kata competitions were held in which the team of Markazi province, with the combination of Abolfazl Shahrjerdi, Ali Zand and Milad Farazmehr, were selected to be sent to the games of Islamic countries.
Then the struggles of the committee section began, which had caused high sensitivity that some struggles were followed with great caution by the athletes and did not have the necessary technical quality.
Numerous uses of the movie review system for scoring also prolonged the campaign.
Saleh Abazari, our country’s heavyweight karateka, who has recently undergone hand surgery, is present in the hall.
Sajjad Ganjzadeh, the golden karateka of our country in the Tokyo Olympics, Hossein Samandar, Saman Heydari, Ahad Shahin and Farid Haghighi from the former national team of our country, as well as a few residents of this discipline, watched today’s fights closely.
Bahman Asgari, who missed the Tokyo Olympics due to a positive doping test, will appear on the tatami after a long time and will fight in the weight category of minus 75 kg.
The fights will be fought back and forth between the participants in each weight to determine the task of sending them to the Asian Games and the championships of the ancient continent. The high number of fights and the length of each game cause the tournament to continue for several more hours.
The 84- and 84+ kg weight classes will be held at another time due to the injuries of Amir Hossein Fedakar and Saleh Abazari.